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... I ... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... much has been written in said about the air traffic control fiasco created by the Obama administration ... my next guest makes a link that ... no one else seems to have made us the web calmness chain store until is here James ... you linking community organizing to the FAA ... to make that link while euro member I when Brock Obama ran for president two thousand ate his big selling point was he was a community organizer they kept saying this of the Democratic National of this video lauding him for six to raise a community organizer in Chicago ... well first the regional community organizer was a man and saw Alinsky ... wrote a fascinating book and I the early seventies called rules for radicals ... and Alinsky tells the story ... of an effort ... to shut down airports are more work on airport into a shambles a real quote I think from this particular episode ... of as concerns Laboratories ... quote ... it would be desperate for a place to relieve themselves one can see children yelling at the parents' money and time ago ... and desperate mothers surrendering call ... all right well into a ... deal and I hear ... O'Hare would soon become a shambles but to put this in context ... Alinsky was working with a ... group called Woodlawn which was a group in a ghetto in Chicago ... and the city administration in his account was unresponsive to their demands that made promises and follow through on them ... they had no political recourse ... because this was nineteen sixty four they couldn't very well switch in support of Barry Goldwater is Republicans ... so they needed to do this town so the plan was ... that they would O'Hare ... and ... occupy the restaurants SOEs suppress minority toilet stall put an end on that pay toilets ... I just sit there for all that ... August Castel ladies rooms completely out of commission ... that a deal with the rules of the men's Rumaila ethical they would have Group store around every tunnel slide derives and line up so nobody nobody would believe him about the greatest hope was ... high it would make Altera shambles ... ahh and died ... perhaps they would have to delay places people went back on the planes to use the lavatory is there to do this and see what it yes it did but they didn't actually have to do it what happened was worded this plan leaked out pun intended by Alinsky ... and five the city Kayden anti agreed to meet the group's demands so ... this seems very similar to what Obama did yesterday of the problem is community organizing tactics work ... when you are ... I'd take when you're trying to put people in power on the spot they don't work when you are in power and that's a problem that Obama seems to have difficulty understanding and scientists with the FAA who say the couple other examples of community organizing attempts yet I mean is this does not gun control measure by effort was that you know ... a lot of that ... a lot of things that are out of the Alinsky playbook use trying to marginalize opponents he was using these very emotionally manipulative tactic stopped running at Gabby Giffords putting videos of children pleading for gun control and so forth ... and the problem is that those sorts of polarizing tactics don't really work when you're trying to build coalitions to pass legislation ... and he ended up losing support in his own partisan Cisco is doing a festive tune in your ... well there's a group called liveAction which is put out a couple of videos recently this is in the wake of the iron ore grade in the course of the Kermit Gasol trial the abortionists to start with but with multiple counts of infanticide why they've they've they've gone to various abortionist one in the Bronx one in DC and they say others are coming ... and done hidden camera videos where they ask these abortionists will lead of twenty four week pregnant woman Joanne ... Chiasson what happens if the baby comes out alive and the abortionists explains the problem is put into a solution and tight end Kellen ... high and tight it's you know this is the kind of thing that's very effective when you are challenging established it just doesn't work for when you press in the United States ... ok what we're going out to leave it that